{"id":1477,"date":"2019-10-24T14:42:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2019-10-24T14:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:58:40","slug":"an-intro-to-getting-involved-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/2019\/10\/24\/an-intro-to-getting-involved-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"An Intro to Getting Involved On Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways students can get involved on campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One student organization is called <\/strong><strong>Student Party<\/strong><strong>, which<\/strong>\u00a0is MIAD\u2019s equivalent of Student Government.\u00a0It meets weekly on Wednesdays during the Common Hour (11 a.m. \u00a0\u2013 12:30 p.m.) in Room 399A, and helps with MIAD traditions like the annual AIDS Walk Wisconsin, Blood Drives, the MIAD Halloween Party, the annual Talent Show and Health Heelers.<\/p>\n<p>There also are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miad.edu\/college-services\/student-life\/student-activities-organizations\">several active student groups<\/a>\u00a0on campus:<\/p>\n<p>Active Minds<br \/>\nAsian Creative Union (ACU)<br \/>\nAmerican Society of Interior Designers (ASID)<br \/>\nAnime Club<br \/>\nDisability Rights, Education, Activism and Mentoring (DREAM)<br \/>\nDrama Club<br \/>\nDungeons &amp; Dragons<br \/>\nFibers Club<br \/>\nFilm Club<br \/>\nGenders and Sexualities Alliance (GSA)<br \/>\nGradients<br \/>\nGraphic Novel Book Club<br \/>\nIndustrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)<br \/>\nInterVarsity<br \/>\nISO (Photography)<br \/>\nMagic: The Gathering<br \/>\nMIAD Print Club<br \/>\nRolling Rats (Skateboarding, etc.)<br \/>\nSuper Secret Cartoon Club<br \/>\nVideo Game Club<\/p>\n<p>If a student is interested in creating a student group that doesn\u2019t currently exist, they should contact Student Party (<a href=\"mailto:studentparty@miad.edu\">studentparty@miad.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Another organization on campus,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalald.org\/\">Alpha Lambda Delta (ALD)<\/a>, is an honor society open to freshmen students who met or exceeded a 3.5 GPA in their first semester at MIAD. ALD fosters academic achievement and learning through thought, design and expression, and believes every person can lead, learn and design with a purpose greater than self to change the world. Should your student become a member of this prestigious honors society, they will be provided the opportunity to compete for scholarships and fellowships awarded by National Alpha Lambda Delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways students can get involved on campus. One student organization is called Student Party, which\u00a0is MIAD\u2019s equivalent of Student Government.\u00a0It meets weekly on Wednesdays during the Common Hour (11 a.m. \u00a0\u2013 12:30 p.m.) in Room 399A, and helps with MIAD traditions like the annual AIDS Walk Wisconsin, Blood Drives, the MIAD Halloween &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/2019\/10\/24\/an-intro-to-getting-involved-on-campus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Intro to Getting Involved On Campus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5653],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supporting-your-studuent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}